Episode 72: Cyber Security for Accounting & Wealth Firms: 20 Practical Steps to Strengthen Your Firm

Knowing your obligations is one thing but implementing effective cyber security strategies is where many firms struggle. In this episode of TaxYak, Senior Tax Trainer George Housakos is joined by Caillin Goss, Jen Pascarl and Jacques Louw from Priority Networking and Greg Gardiner from Count. That’s why in this session, we will walk through a practical framework built around 20 key questions designed to test your firm’s cyber security posture. These questions cover areas such as: Governance and accountability Staff awareness and training Access controls and identity management Backup and disaster recovery Incident response planning Vendor and third-party risk And ongoing monitoring and improvement When these strategies and controls are successfully implemented, they don’t just help protect your business, they also support your ability to meet increasingly onerous compliance requirements. Think of this as a health check for your firm’s cyber maturity: a way to identify gaps, prioritise actions, and build a more resilient and secure operating environment. And as mentioned earlier, if you’d like a copy of our Cyber Security Checklist to support this process, please feel free to contact Cailin Goss at PNET. Special Offer: Priority Networking is offering all Tax Yak listeners a $2,400 comprehensive cyber security assessment. This covers the Essential 8 Framework and other key cyber security measures, including your policies and procedures, and will help assess whether your business has the capabilities to prevent, detect and respond to cybersecurity incidents, should they occur in your business.  Find out more